Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Samuels, Edward Augustus

SAMUELS, Edward Augustus, naturalist, b. in Boston, Mass., 4 July, 1836. He received a common-school education, began early to write for the press, and from 1860 till 1880 was assistant to the secretary of the Massachusetts state board of agriculture. For several years he has been president of the Massachusetts fish and game protective association, besides following the business of a publisher of musical works. He has given attention to invention, and is the originator of a process for engraving by photography directly from nature or from a photographic print. Mr. Samuels has contributed long essays to the U. S. and the Massachusetts agricultural reports, and has published, among other works, “Ornithology and Oölogy of New England” (Boston, 1867); “Among the Birds” (1867); “Mammalogy of New England” (1868); and, with Augustus C. L. Arnold, “The Living World” (2 vols., 1868-'70). His latest illustrated work is entitled “With Fly-rod and Camera” (New York, 1890).—His wife, Susan Blagge Caldwell, author, b. in Dedham, Mass., 21 Oct., 1848, is a daughter of Com. Charles H. B. Caldwell. She was a teacher in Waltham and Boston, Mass., before her marriage, and in 1885 was a member of the school committee of Waltham. Mrs. Samuels is the author of numerous stories that have appeared in juvenile magazines and religious weeklies and of a series of books called “Springdale Stories” (6 vols., Boston, 1871), which were re-issued as “Golden Rule Stories” (1886).—His sister, Adelaide Florence, author, b. in Boston, Mass., 24 Sept., 1845, was educated in a district school at Milton, Mass., and became a teacher and ultimately a writer. Her publications in book-form include “Adrift in the World” (Boston, 1872); “Little Cricket” (1873); “Daisy Travers, or the Girls of Hive Hall” (1876); and other stories for youth.